graduation!!!!!!!!!!

omg, i'm a graduate!!ummm, there isn't really much more to say, i'm a graduate! i'm done with school, i'm done with school!! *said in a sing-song voice*. ok, so my speech was awesome!! but not as great as max's his was definitely best. my speech started out "dearly beloved, we are gathered here in memory of my high school career". that was the best part. max's was just hilarious though. bari and i planned to give him our tassles 'discreetly' in between the speeches to add more humour to his speech, but after i passed mine, it was returned to me with a comment "we changed our minds". ya, it would've been nice if someone told me, but still, it didn't matter, because i was a graduate!!
the moment bari and i got into the old library, after the recession, i screamed so loud. i had been suppressing that scream of excitement so long, and to let it all out was amazing. the reception was pretty good too. the excitement didn't leave me. there were lots of pictures, and lots of cake (yum) and an amazing gift from my mom (and dad/brother). they gave me a $25 gift card to dsw, a $75 gift card to barnes and nobles, two really cute stuffed animals, but most important, and best of all: my mom sowed a new purse for me!!! i was so attached to my old one that it was almost completely torn apart and i basically didn't throw it out because there was no other that was big enough and comfortable enough. it's amazing, and my mom doesn't even sow!!
after the reception i had planned to make an appearance at bari's party and then spend some time with my family, before senior prank that night. my parents/family didn't want that. they said they wanted to go out to dinner right away. i tried to argue my way out of it for a while, but it didn't work, so i had to miss bari's party entirely. i did not enjoy this, especially since i hate going out for dinner, and even more so i hate buffets, which is where they dragged me. eventually we went to my grandpas house temporarily.
following this, my dad drove me to school "just to pick up my car". my parents were against the whole idea of senior prank. basically when i got there though, i stayed in my car for a while, and was going to wait until 9:30 and then contribute to the prank, but impatience got the best of me.
i drove over to miriam's and we sat on her front step and talked for a while. at 9:00 (a little after i got there) bari called me and asked if i could come earlier and join them in breaking in. they had decided to go earlier than originally agreed. after explaining i had just gotten to miriam's and still wanted to talk to her a bit, she consented to me coming at 9:30 and just helping with the prank later on.
at 9:15 when i was getting ready to leave, already in my car, i got a phone call from bari. "don't come to school, we got caught. eugene (the janitor) is calling the police. call amanda and tell her not to come either". at first i was so relieved i hadn't been there. i felt like miriam had saved me, but then such shame and guilt fled across my surface. i was the one who orchestrated this whole thing and made it happen and now everyone but me was in trouble for it. eventually, after several attempts from me and amanda, we discovered what had happened. amanda finally got through to one of those among them, tolik, and found out the truth. eugene hadn't called the police. he let them off the hook, but was extremely pissed. they left school, and that was that. later i discovered the continued on to a party at tolik's abandoned house, and had another rendezvous with the police. we'll get to that later though.
i made it home, lied to my mom that i had actually been part of senior prank and everything was ok (because my parents even more than not wanting me to be part of senior prank, didn't want me to waste gas/money driving to miriam's and back to school), i ended up in bed by 10.